Theory of the Image: Capitalism, Contemporary Film, and Women"Just about everything in this book is fresh and exciting." --Carol Siegel Ann Kibbey's Theory of the Image is based on a concept of the image as a dynamic relation rather than a thing. In three essays Kibbey contends that the image itself is an ideological construct. "The Capitalist Theory of the Image" argues that capitalism enforces social identity and fetishism through religious iconoclastic beliefs about the commodity as image. "Liberating a Woman from Her Image" creates a new feminist approach to women in film, breaking the symbiosis of woman and image at the heart of previous theory. "Relief from the Production of Certainties" challenges conservative and racist agendas informing the assumption that a photograph records an image. The book draws on extensive personal interviews and also provides detailed explications of important films in recent transnational cinema to demonstrate new theories of the image for a global society. |
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... significance and the rightful possessor of the material , perceived as the " raw matter " used to cre- ate the myth ( 109 ) . Barthes ' theory of myth is valuable in showing that the articulation of the negative subject ( the Negro ...
... significance . In doing so , Barthes emptied the photograph of all its attributes as an artistic image , reducing it to a transparent instrumentality . Continuing to invert his argument in Mythologies , he also praised the photograph ...
... significance in the discovery of its imaginative register and the complex , seemingly contradictory feelings it draws out . In this director's refusal to drown his stories in certainty , even the temporal flows of the stories are drawn ...
Contents
The Capitalist Theory of the Image | 5 |
Congruence with the Capitalist Economy | 17 |
Critique of Barthes | 24 |
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